Bringing together the leading future figures in ethics broadly construed with essays ranging from metaethics and normative ethics to applied ethics and political philosophy, topics include new work on experimental philosophy, feminism, and global justice incorporating perspectives informed from historical and contemporary approaches alike.
Bringing together the leading future figures in ethics broadly construed with essays ranging from metaethics and normative ethics to applied ethics an...
The capabilities approach is a widely influential alternative theory of justice, popularized by Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and also by Martha Nussbaum. Justice and the Capabilities Approach is the first work of its kind to publish in one place the most influential essays in the field covering a number of topics, including constitutional law, cosmopolitanism, distributive justice, the family, feminism, global justice, human rights, poverty, and social justice. The collection should help inform both scholars and students coming to the study of the capabilities approach for the first time of...
The capabilities approach is a widely influential alternative theory of justice, popularized by Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and also by Martha Nuss...
Current Controversies in Political Philosophy brings together an international team of leading philosophers to explore and debate four key and dynamic issues in the field in an accessible way.
Should we all be cosmopolitans? - Gillian Brock and Cara Nine
Are rights important? - Rowan Cruft and Sonu Bedi
Is sexual objectification wrong and, if so, why? - Lina Papadaki and Scott Anderson
What to do about climate change? - Alexa Zellentin and Thom Brooks
These questions are the focus of intense debate. Preliminary...
Current Controversies in Political Philosophy brings together an international team of leading philosophers to explore and debate four key...
Current Controversies in Political Philosophy brings together an international team of leading philosophers to explore and debate four key and dynamic issues in the field in an accessible way.
Should we all be cosmopolitans? - Gillian Brock and Cara Nine
Are rights important? - Rowan Cruft and Sonu Bedi
Is sexual objectification wrong and, if so, why? - Lina Papadaki and Scott Anderson
What to do about climate change? - Alexa Zellentin and Thom Brooks
These questions are the focus of intense debate. Preliminary...
Current Controversies in Political Philosophy brings together an international team of leading philosophers to explore and debate four key...
Alcohol and its consumption is a major topic for public policy-making. Growing awareness of alcohol-related health problems among the general public has led to high levels of interest in alcohol consumption and its impact on society. This innovative collection of new perspectives on this critically important issue is informed by a leading group of international social scientists. Topics covered include alcoholism, the family, minimum pricing, paternalistic controls, and Socially Responsible Investment programs. Together, these essays reveal illuminating new insights into how public policy...
Alcohol and its consumption is a major topic for public policy-making. Growing awareness of alcohol-related health problems among the general publi...
This authoritative and accessible introduction to the fundamental concerns for justice common to societies around the globe brings together foundational and contemporary concepts, exploring and explaining the major issues from sovereignty and severe poverty to environmental justice and human rights.
The most comprehensive introductory text on global justice
Brings together key foundational and contemporary perspectives
Covers high-profile issues such as poverty, sovereignty, environmental and distributional justice
Each chapter provides illuminating...
This authoritative and accessible introduction to the fundamental concerns for justice common to societies around the globe brings together foundat...
New Waves in Global Justice brings together the leading future figures in global justice with essays ranging from climate change and global poverty to just war and human rights and immigration. An ideal collection for anyone interested in the most important debates in global justice, as well as those with an interest in the latest significant contributions from the leading new generation of international philosophers working in global justice.
New Waves in Global Justice brings together the leading future figures in global justice with essays ranging from climate change and global p...
What is it for a car, a piece of art or a person to be good, bad or better than another? In this first book-length introduction to value theory, Francesco Orsi explores the nature of evaluative concepts used in everyday thinking and speech and in contemporary philosophical discourse. The various dimensions, structures and connections that value concepts express are interrogated with clarity and incision.
Orsi provides a systematic survey of both classic texts including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Moore and Ross and an array of contemporary theorists. The reader is guided through the...
What is it for a car, a piece of art or a person to be good, bad or better than another? In this first book-length introduction to value theory, Fr...
What is it for a car, a piece of art or a person to be good, bad or better than another? In this first book-length introduction to value theory, Francesco Orsi explores the nature of evaluative concepts used in everyday thinking and speech and in contemporary philosophical discourse. The various dimensions, structures and connections that value concepts express are interrogated with clarity and incision.
Orsi provides a systematic survey of both classic texts including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Moore and Ross and an array of contemporary theorists. The reader is guided through the...
What is it for a car, a piece of art or a person to be good, bad or better than another? In this first book-length introduction to value theory, Fr...
Citizenship has come under increasing strain in the face of globalization. Our world gets ever smaller while it sometimes seems our borders are becoming ever more closed. What is citizenship and how can it be ethical? Should citizens owe each other special duties denied to non-citizens? How might theories about citizenship impact on our practices? Ethical Citizenship rediscovers a significant and distinctive contribution to how we might understand citizenship today in the first full length examination of this topic. Ethical citizenship is a communitarian relationship between...
Citizenship has come under increasing strain in the face of globalization. Our world gets ever smaller while it sometimes seems our borders are becomi...